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The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet: Virtual Utopias and Dystopias
Majid Yar
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Hardcover. Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; PDR; UYV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity.
Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
Number of Pages
114
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137436689
SKU
V9781137436689
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99-15
About Majid Yar
Majid Yar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. He has researched and published widely in the areas of crime & deviance studies, media & popular culture, and social & criminological theory.
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